Cooking fried breakfast at home shouldn't be allowed?

[luckysdadsway]

I know I'll get flamed for this, but AIBU to feel so completely annoyed when anyone suggests cooking sausages, bacon or at worst a full fried breakfast at home?

Now don't get me wrong, I enjoyed a friend breakfast or the odd bacon sandwich in a cafe but absolutely not at home.

I can't cope with the awful cooking smell that comes from them. It sticks to everything including my hair which means I can smell it all day. The smell lingers throughout the house all day and we have any visitors I feel mortified by it.

A fried breakfast is even worse because not only do you get the awful smell but the amount of washing up that comes along with it. The need to use so many pans!

All of these comments that complain about the smell. What about other cooking smells. Do you never cook or never use onions, garlic or spice?

I know. I never meet people like this in real life

You grill the bacon, sausage, tomato and shrooms, poach the egg and keep the window open and fan going.

I don't think it's much worse than frying onions or cooking a curry, for example... but I admittedly do those things (and fried breakfasts) with the internal kitchen door closed, extractor fan on and kitchen windows open (because the extractor fan is rubbish)!

The eldest looked like a redheaded version of Samara Morgan from The Ring when she appeared at the kitchen door. I'm not even convinced she was fully conscious at the point she was there mumbling 'Is there one for me?', but after she'd disappeared with her teaplate (she could not be relied upon to carry a full sized plate in that condition) and the youngest had trotted off after her with a glass of orange juice, I could guarantee she'd reemerge bright-eyed and alert, fully dressed and ready to do anything including tidy up about half an hour later.

There must be a market in olfactory alarm clocks and ones that make the sound of a cat with a furball.

Just light a candle that takes away the aromas.

Agreed. I hate the smell of fried breakfasts, thanks to spending many years when I was younger working in a cafe at breakfast time. Air fryers have made them palatable again and we'll often have a "fry up" for dinner, now I can do the most offending items in it.

It’s our favourite way to entertain
we invite friends for brunch .
Full Scottish
good breads
yogurt granola and fruit and lots of toast and jams etc
invites say “come hungry for brunch at 11:30 “
Sometimes it’s an hour or two sometimes it stretches til dinner time !
relaxed and delicious .

I've been cooking my sausages and bacon in the oven for years, crisps them up nicely and no nasty niffs.

My DD is coming home tonight and there are 3 curries on the go already 👍🏽

Decent extractors stop this. I can’t even smell my food cooking sometimes even if it starts burning because my hob extracts the smell and steam out so efficiently

I'm an atheist, but if someone can prove that the smell of frying bacon was wafted here from heaven, I'd change 😀🥓
It's right up there as one of the best smells ever invented... However, if I'm cooking anything, I don't do it in clothes I'm gonna wear out later 👍. And I occasionally open the window 👍

As pp have said, you need an air fryer.

It’s just a preference thing. I love the smell of frying onion, garlic, and spices! A fried breakfast smells stomach-churningly greasy to me. Ofc plenty of people hate curry smells etc so it balances out.

Try a spatter guard! They work!

YABU.

I don’t ever really have a full English anymore but the smell is no worse than any other cooking smell.

I love bacon but hate the smell it leaves. During warm weather I often take an electric skillet outside to fry it, if I have to cook indoors I make sure to clean the stove, pan, etc and open a window w/a fan running for at least an hour.

Still lay in bed at night smelling it.

I am copying this. It sounds perfect.

We no longer have an oven and fixed hob, so no extractor fan. So we use the air fryer otherwise yes, frying meat does stink the house out.

But when we did... I had one big oval pan that sat over two rings and the whole lot went in there (don't do beans, ugh), so I don't see why there has to be 'all the pans'.

Now it all goes in the air fryer, any tinned tomatoes either I use a seperate tin inside the airfryer or it goes on a portable hob. So one saucepan and the airfryer basket.

My unpopular opinion is that I can't understand why people want to eat revolting processed meat for breakfast or any meals at home or out because of animals welfare and the strong links to developing coleorectal cancer.

Meh, I can make a lovely full English without the use of a single frying pan. Your reaction is a bit OTT.

I do the whole thing in the oven, bar the eggs. Uses a couple of baking trays, depending on the numbers.

Load up a baking sheet with sausage, bacon folded in half or wrapped around the sausage or mushrooms. Mushrooms, tomatoes, hash browns. All in the oven for about 30+mins.

Put some toast on and scramble (easiest to time and for large numbers) or fry eggs, bobs your uncle. I have done eggs on a baking sheet or in cups but the timing is much easier in a pan or a poaching pan.

And very little smell.

Occasional treat. And you can get nitrate free properly free ranged bacon.

Yes & immensely healthier the method you use too
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Yes completely comprehend where you're coming from 😥🙏😥